CLOVIS, N.M. — Richard R. ‘Dick’
Malone, 79, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1998. Memorial services will
be at 11 a.m. Friday in The Chapel with Dr. Frank Sherman
officiating. Military honors will be by Cannon Air Force Base
Honor Guard. Arrangements are by Muffley Funeral Home. Mr.
Malone was born in Hope, Ark. He moved to Clovis in 1979. He
served during World War II with the 200th Coast Artillery Unit
and was held as a prisoner of war for 40 months. He was a member
of the Bataan Veterans Association. After the war, he entered a
career in administration with the Atomic Energy Commission. He
attended the University of New Mexico. Mr. Malone married Arlene
Smith in 1947 at Carlsbad. He was preceded in death by his wife
and by a son, Bobby Malone. Survivors include a brother, Robert
Malone of Carlsbad; a sister, Gladys Radcliffe of Duncan, Okla.;
two stepdaughters, Sue Nix of Clovis and Winn Larner of
Albuquerque; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.